2013 Asian Championship Analysis

Asian Championship in Thailand had officially comes to an end. Congrats to Korea Player, Choi Jun-Hyeong  for winning and also Sam from my homeland getting 2nd with Evilswarm 

So below are the list of deck that piloted by the  players:

3 Elemental Dragon (E.D) , 4 Prophecy and a solo Evilswarm (Verz)

Champion
Choi Jun Hyeong (South Korea) (E.D)
1st runner-up
Kee Kian Sim "Sam" (Malaysia) (Evilswarm)
2nd runner-up
Edsel Gozon (Philippines) (Prophecy)

Preliminary Non-qualified players
Yang Zhe Fei (Taiwan) (Prophecy)
Somsira Vanprapa (Thaian) (Prophecy)
Kenneth Koh (Singapore) (E.D)
Law Ming Fung (Hong Kong) (Prophecy)
Soh Jun Yuan (Singapore) (E.D)

So now lets see the deck list from Jun-Hyeong.

Player: Choi Jun-Hyeong (South Korea)
Deck: Elemental Dragon
Rank: Asia Championship 2013 Champion
Main Deck: 40

3 Blaster, Elemental Dragon of Calderas
3 Tidal, Elemental Dragon of Cascades
3 Tempest, Elemental Dragon of Cyclones
3 Redox, Elemental Dragon of Crags
2 Reactan, Elemental Dragon of Earth
2 Stream, Elemental Dragon of Water
2 Burner, Elemental Dragon of Fire
1 Lightning, Elemental Dragon of Wind
2 Maxx “C”
3 Effect Veiler

1 Heavy Storm
1 Book of Moon
1 Card Destruction
2 Seven Star Sword
3 Super Rejuvenation
3 Gold Sarcophagus

1 Raigeki Break
2 Breakthrough Skill
2 Eradicator Epidemic Virus

Extra Deck: 15
1 Armory Arm
1 Ancient Sacred Wyvern
1 Black Rose Dragon
1 Stardust Radiance Dragon
1 Scrap Dragon
1 Crimson Blader
1 Red Dragon Archfiend
1 Gaia Dragon, the Thunder Charger
1 Mermail Abyssgaios
3 Number 11: Big Eye
3 Mecha Phantom Beast Dragossack

Side Deck: 15
1 Swift Scarecrow
1 Maxx “C”
1 Neo-Spacian Grand Mole
1 Tsukuyomi
2 Electric Virus
3 Droll & Lock Bird
1 Dark Hole
3 Mystical Space Typhoon
1 Return from the Different Dimension
1 Eradicator Epidemic Virus

The first impression I saw this deck is the 3 effect veiler and 2 breakthrough skill in the main deck. OMG, stopping opponent effects for 7 times... It is disgusting... Apart from that, Eradicator virus in the main deck also stop prophecy well. 3 Maxx c in the main deck also good against most of the meta in Asia currently. It can enhance draw power and stop opponent for combos at the same time. Another card that I think is good is card destruction. When combining card destruction and super rejuvenation + all the small dragons effect, holly shit... max hand!!! I played test for around 20 games with this deck in YGOPro and Duelingnetwork and noticed that it is stable, consistent and get 18/20. (Lost to an evilswarm and a fireking deck that default with 3 imperial iron wall)

E-Dragon had took the Asia Championship, so will this deck continue to dominate in World Championship this year? Hopefully prophecy, eveilswarm and firefist can stop the dragon. That;s all for this time. Thank you for your time.